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In 2015, the best upgrade for a PC or Mac is to swap out the traditional hard disk drive for a solid-state drive, or SSD. Even if you’ve got a modest amount of RAM, installing a drive that’s made out of flash memory instead of spinning magnetic platters is revelatory. …

It’s time to put an SSD into my Mac Mini. I just ordered a 500-gigabyte Samsung 850 EVO SSD, based on a recommendation at The Wirecutter, and the necessary tools from Other World Computing for installing it. The process is described in a tutorial video as “Challenging.”

Surprise: OS X Yosemite will run on some pretty aging Apple hardware, including my mid-2007 iMac, which is also the oldest iMac that can run Mavericks. But expecting the iMac would not make the cut for OS X 10.10, I purchased a Mac Mini. Now what? …

Updated 12:14 p.m. • Apple announces special event for Oct. 23 – The presumed iPad Mini event will take place at noon on Oct. 23 in San Jose, Calif. Also Apple to launch 24 new iPad models, comprised of iPad minis and perhaps Lightning iPad 3 and iMac Reportedly Set to Receive Updates Next Week …

As promised during Apple executives’ earnings call with investors Tuesday, the latest version of Mac OS X has been posted to the Mac App Store. It costs $29.99, and you only need to pay for it it once – you can then install it on all the Macs you own. This download process is the […] …

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